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Lawrence Block’s hard-boiled romance of the down-and-out.

Close to the day in which we are to celebrate the document that almost 250 years ago asserted our unity in opposition to tyranny, we find ourselves confronting it again.

Cerberus was later getting into the water than I had expected this year.

So where, exactly, is the popular will most manifestly expressed?

This column debuted exactly two years ago this week. I’m trying to think of what has changed in those two years.

At last, lyrics you could sink your teeth into.

Being by the ocean is not, to me, a frivolous pursuit.

Things are comfortable here, so much so that one wants to stay put.

A goodbye to Little League and its ball field.

I’m not going to go gentle into that good night.

I’m intrigued by the fact that I’ve been diagnosed with paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia.

It’s important to talk about how social media distorts the digital world we see — and don’t see.